Are you going through a stressful time? Maybe a traumatic time? Anxious? Uptight? Triggered? Panicked? Attacked?Here are some suggestions. This is something I use. Not often do I use all of these things at once. First there is no time to sit and go through this thoroughly in one sitting. Second, well when you are […]
To say it Out Loud or Not. Occasionally as you are reading a book aloud to your child, or in a poetry selection if the book was published a few years back, you’ll come across words that have evolved in meaning over time. For example pussy, gay, and ass are words that in the past
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Fairness, Forgiveness, Forgetting From Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, Chapter 8 Quick as thought he snatched a knife from Hook’s belt and was about to drive it home, when he saw that he was higher up the rock than his foe. It would not have been fighting fair. He gave the pirate a hand to
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About 12 years ago as I sat planning picture study lessons, I evaluated where we were and what we had done. We had studied some of the older classic painters as we travelled along the line of history—Giotto, Van Eyck, Michelangelo, Vermeer, Bouguereau, Millet, Degas, Constable, Stuart, Copley, David, Homer… This time period is a
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Jayber Crow by Wendell BerryBook review by A. age 17 Jayber Crow is a book about the life of a boy that grew up in a small town near a river. It tells many stories about the town and the people that lived there. Some of the stories in the book are very touching. Although
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Maybe not all good byes have to be ugly.Maybe some grieving can give way to beauty.Maybe there could be Good in bye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CYqs-sM94QWhen I am alone I sit and dreamAnd when I dream the words are missingYes I know that in a room so full of lightThat all the light is missingBut I don’t see
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This is the third go around for this post. The first post was that First Reading Lessons were coming. That post has some quotes and such below – that’s the original article. Then I added an Update this summer just in the title – that the lessons are here. Now I’m adding the behind the
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Used Curriculum Shop- End of 2023 SaleSTARTS TOMORROW!!!!! (Saturday Dec 16) The Used Curriculum Shop is overflowing with lots of curriculum. Thank you to those who have donated!There are new Sonlight Teachers manuals, Memoria Press guides, Saxon, MUSee, BJU Reading, grammar and history, Abeka, Classical Conversations guides…Pictures below. There is A LOT more than is
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Often the words charming, delightful, reverent, joyful, peaceful, even sacred accompany descriptions of Nature Journaling in a Charlotte Mason Education. Bright walks, invigorating fresh air, beauty for every eye with subject matter abounding, is bound to make for refreshment and mind feeding. Take, for example, this quote from Charlotte Mason, “As soon as he is
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This is taken pretty directly from CM, I added Service Projects and Handiwork (chores). The items with * are things that we do during Together Time (the whole family). Form 1a= age 7-9 / grade 2-3 Bible *-Old Testament-New Testament Literature-imagination stories like fables, fairy tales, and legends-poetry (read)* History-own country-charts of the lives of
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